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SoCal-to-Vegas rail route wins federal designation

LAS VEGAS – The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal 07 4 2009 8:39AM (...more)

Levitating train from L.A. to Las Vegas gets boost

WASHINGTON - Plans for a levitating train from Las Vegas to Disneyland can move forward under a transportation bill signed by President Bush on Friday that frees up $45 million for the futuristic project.
06 7 2008 12:27PM (...more)

Competition for Calif-Vegas train plan

LAS VEGAS - It's been hailed as the future of mass transit and ridiculed as a big gamble on little more than an amusement park ride. Which is a pretty clever insult, considering the project in question is a magnetically levitating train that would speed tourists from Las Vegas to Disneyland .
02 28 2008 5:31AM (...more)

DNC Protests and demonstrations, Aug. 27

PUPPET GOVERNMENT If you like your protests big and colorful and, well, downright cute, it was hard to top the Procession for the Future parade down Colfax Avenue at noon Tuesday. The parade featured such crowd-
08 28 2008 6:32AM (...more)

Futurist: Not-So-High-Speed Rail

One of the most expensive flops in television history was " Supertrain ," a show about a 200-mile-per-hour, nuclear-powered locomotive -- a land-locked "Love Boat" with celebrity guest passengers, fancy special effects and
04 19 2009 5:55PM (...more)

Obama Levitates

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 22 - 2/23/2009 – One of many highlights of the stimulus bill the Democrats just rammed through Congress is $8 billion for high-speed
02 21 2009 5:08AM (...more)

Top 10 unusual places to stay

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - From converted train cars to converted prisons, travel Web site VirtualTourist.com has come up its picks of the 10 most unusual places to stay.
06 28 2008 3:01PM (...more)

Religion in the news

WONEWOC, Wis. - They see dead people on Spook Hill. They're walking around the grounds, sitting in the dining hall and in the pews at the abandoned church. Kids, heard by visitors but usually only seen by those trained to see into the spirit world, play outside the rustic and run-down cabins.
09 2 2007 3:49PM (...more)